Ruby Bridges Quotes

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

God and the devil are inherent in each of us. It's our choice to make: you can take the road to good, you can take the road to bad. Well, we have a choice.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

I want to make people see that evil is seductive and that we need to be careful.

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Every being has flaws; the potential is always there to connect to the light or to darkness.

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.